By Brian McCartan
CHIANG MAI - Thailand's new Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has been in office less than a month but he has already stirred political turmoil with remarks about the country's past struggle for democracy and its current campaign against Muslim militants in its southernmost provinces.
This bodes ill for the country's first democratically elected government since former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted in a September 2006 coup and its stated vow to achieve national reconciliation after years of political unrest. Samak's remarks came during interviews with international broadcasters CNN and al-Jazeera shortly after assuming the premiership in early February.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
The politics of Thai revisionist history
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